The Alaska Reference Database originated as the standalone Alaska Fire Effects Reference Database, a ProCite reference database maintained by former BLM-Alaska Fire Service Fire Ecologist Randi Jandt. It was expanded under a Joint Fire Science Program grant for the FIREHouse project (The Northwest and Alaska Fire Research Clearinghouse). It is now maintained by the Alaska Fire Science Consortium and FRAMES, and is hosted through the FRAMES Resource Catalog. The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Smith, Prepas, Putz, Burke, Meyer, Whitson
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tiner
While many wetlands form along floodplains of rivers, streams, lakes, and estuaries, others have developed in depressions far removed from such waters. Depressional wetlands completely surrounded by upland have traditionally been called 'isolated wetlands.' Isolated wetlands are…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Minshall
Synthesis of published research on the responses of stream benthic macroinvertebrates to fire in western United States indicates a consistent pattern of response that can guide resource management and future research. Direct effects of fire generally are minor or indiscernible.…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Miller, Luce, Benda
Storm-driven episodes of gully erosion and landsliding produce large influxes of sediment to stream channels that have both immediate, often detrimental, impacts on aquatic communities and long-term consequences that are essential in the creation and maintenance of certain…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rinne
Until recently, the effects of wildfire on aquatic ecosystems in the southwestern USA have been given little attention. Wildfires in the early 90s and their impact on threatened and endangered fishes and their habitats increased concern for this management issue. In summer 2002…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Prepas, Burke, Chanasyk, Smith, Putz, Gabos, Chen, Millions, Serediak
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mazzucchi, Spooner, Gilbert, Osborn
Sediment cores from Pyramid Lake, an alpine tarn in the Cassiar Mountains of northwestern British Columbia, were investigated for changes in pollen, plant macro-fossils, charcoal, and clastic sediment, which are used to infer changes in climate throughout the Holocene.…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Whitlock, Anderson
From the text ... 'Our experience in conducting fire history studies comes from regions with natural lakes and wetlands. Lake sites are used for most stratigraphic fire history studies, and our understanding of charcoal deposition and burial (i.e., charcoal taphonomy) comes from…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Catling, Brownell
Vascular plants recorded within 50 one metre square quadrats in 1997 in an area cut and burned 37 years earlier revealed an unusually high species diversity with 87 native vascular plant species, which is roughly twice as high as that recorded in various open areas of alvars…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Blais, France, Kimpe, Cornett
Sedimentation patterns in nine lake basins were examined where catchments were either clearcut, burned in recent history, or where there has been no recorded disturbance and the catchments consist of mature forests. Pronounced declines in sedimentation rates were observed in…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williamson, Agee
Poster abstract...Riparian vegetation is often assumed to be less flammable than upland vegetation in evaluations of fire hazard in the eastern Cascades and Blue Mountains. However, the complex multi-layered structure and high proportion of fire-sensitive species within riparian…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lindbladh, Bradshaw
Deciduous forests in much of southern Sweden are often located on former 'in-field' sites close to farms and villages. The more distant 'out-field' sites are almost always dominated by conifers. Using palaeecological methods, we investigate the origin of this forest pattern at a…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Korsman, Segerstrom
1 A Holocene sediment profile from a northern Swedish boreal forest lake was analysed for diatoms, pollen and charcoal. The diatom data were used for inferences of lake-water pH, alkalinity and colour, while the pollen and charcoal records enabled assessment of catchment…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Charette, Prepas
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Earl, Blinn
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown, Hebda
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lamb, Mallik, Mackereth
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Keane, Finney
From the Conclusion ... 'A comprehensive, mechanistic simulation of wildland fire and ecosystem dynamics across a landscape may not be possible because of computer limitations, inadequate research, inconsistent data, and extensive parameterization. Therefore empirical and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hu, Ito, Brubaker, Anderson
Trace-element analysis of the calcareous shells of ostracodes in a sediment core from Farewell Lake provides the first limno-geochemical record for climatic reconstructions in Alaska. When compared with pollen data from the same site, this record offers new insights into…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hu, Kaufman, Yoneji, Nelson, Shemesh, Huang, Tian, Bond, Clegg, Brown
High-resolution analyses of lake sediment from southwestern Alaska reveal cyclic variations in climate and ecosystems during the Holocene. These variations occurred with periodicities similar to those of solar activity and appear to be coherent with time series of the cosmogenic…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hu, Shemesh
Despite growing evidence for environmental oscillations during the last glacial-interglacial transition from high latitude, terrestrial sites of the North Pacific rim, oxygen-isotopic records of these oscillations remain sparse. The lack of data is due partially to the paucity…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Leenhouts
ANNOTATION: Wildland fire has been an integral part of the landscape of the conterminous United States for millennia. Analysis of contemporary and pre-industrial (~ 200 - 500 yr BP) conditions, using potential natural vegetation, satellite imagery, and ecological fire regime…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Prepas, Chen, Burke, Chanasyk, Smith, Putz, Gabos, Millions, Serediak
Water and phosphorus (P) exports during the peakflow season increased after a fire in early summer 1998 burned 89% of an upland watershed on the Boreal Plain of western Canada. The change in water export between pre- (1983) and post-fire (1998 to 2000) periods was higher in the…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pilliod, Bury, Hyde, Pearl, Corn
Information on amphibian responses to fire and fuel reduction practices is critically needed due to potential declines of species and the prevalence of new, more intensive fire management practices in North American forests. The goals of this review are to summarize the known…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Perry, Bradford, Grout
We used stable isotopes of carbon in a growth-dependent tissue-turnover model to quantify the relative contribution of autochthonous and terrestrial energy sources to juvenile chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) in five small boreal streams tributary to the upper Yukon…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES